<br />How about "ex officina" or "ab officina"? I just looked up "office" in my dictionary and it gave me "officina". I didn't have a dictionary at work earlier, which is why I'm getting a second dictionary. I can't exactly shout to the crowd at work, "Hey, what's the Latin word for ___?"<br /><br />I'm not sure whether to use "ex" or "ab". Ab means away from. Ex means out of. So they both seem possible.<br /><br />Ex officina ero adusque VI NOV MMIII. Si auxilium requiritis, oro ut ad II-V-VI V-I-II I-0-II-IV Manderley vocetis. ???<br /><br /><br />

No, I'm just about to start Unit 12. But I seem to remember there was a discussion about absum at the time I joined textkit.<br /><br />As far as I know, it's enough to put the date into the ablative to say when something happened/will happen.<br /><br />I can't remember now what 6th November would be in the Roman calendar. When were the nones in November?

The calendar was umm difficult. There were three key dates, the calendae, the nones, and the ides (hence the Ides of March). If I remember correctly the calends were always the first of the month but the date of the nones or ides varied from month to month. Anyway to give the date you counted down to the next calendae, nones or ides. i.e., you said it was so many days to the calendae, nones, or ides. <br /><br />See: http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/mores/cale ... lendar.htm

<br />Well, that certainly does add a small wrinkle. I didn't know it was so complicated! I'll need some time to digest all this...<br /><br />Love the website. Now I know what to call all the days of the week. I wasn't sure what "Thursday" was in Latin.<br /><br />

- Idus is a noun of the 4th decl in plural (Idus, Idus, Idus, Iduum, Idibus, Idibus)<br /><br />- For the Romans, the "1st" day "before" the Ides is the day of the Ides itself. The day before is called "PRIDIE IDUS" (with Idus in the Accusative, don't ask me why), and counted as the "2nd" day before the Ides, because the precedent day is called "the third".<br /><br />- November 6th is thus the "8th" day before the Ides (occuring November 13th).<br /><br />- The latin said ANTE DIEM OCTAVUM IDUS NOVEMBRES, what is not logical, instead of DIE OCTAVO ANTE IDUS NOVEMBRES<br />

[quote author=Keesa link=board=3;threadid=754;start=0#7571 date=1065099111]<br />Is this why you needed the phone numbers in Latin, Mariek? I believe I understand now...<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Yes, I was leading up to this question. It all makes sense now, eh? <br /><br />

<br />Ah... so it should be ABL because we're expressing "when" rather than duration.<br /><br />I'm probably going to confuse the two until I reach Unit 7 ... at this rate, it'll be some time next year.<br /><br />

[quote author=mariek link=board=3;threadid=754;start=15#7609 date=1065121294]<br /><br />Yes, I was leading up to this question. It all makes sense now, eh? <br /><br /><br />[/quote]<br /><br />Yes, now it makes sense. I was quite curious about that.

"On" when concerning time is rendered by the ablative of time when or within which without any preposition. I can't say that I've at all done anything to do with calendars but I can tell you that on the fifth day of the first month "quintó dié mensis primi" have a good time.